Category: parenting

What it’s Like a Year After Moving

Army Wives, family, military life, moving, parenting

One year after moving… A year ago, we were the new kids in town. It’s an exciting place to be, but it’s not a secure feeling at all. Perhaps that why it’s so exciting. You’re all out there without roots, marching out into the unknown, hoping the people will be kind and the environment friendly. Phew! It’s exhausting to be new: always putting your best foot forward…Actually, sometimes it’s an accomplishment just to remember to smile at everyone and keep […]

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A Parent Review of ABCmouse: Keeping Our Brains Working Through Summer

parenting, preschool, toddlers
Parent Review of ABCmouse

  Like most moms, I TRY to keep my children from letting all of their knowledge fall out over the summer. Any “book learnin’” my four boys accomplish over the summer is typically solely because I forced them to do it. Maybe your kids aren’t like mine, I don’t know, but my children never ASK me to do workbook pages and catch up on their reading logs. When I was a little girl, I LOVED doing workbooks, but that is […]

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30 Days of Tween Parenting Encouragement E-book

encouragement, faith, parenting, preteens

I am all kinds of stoked to tell y’all about this FREE e-book! We’re sending 30 Days of Tween Parenting Encouragement out today, as a gift, to ALL of my blog newsletter subscribers. Lee Felix of Like Minded Musings, did an excellent job compiling this book, with contributions from 30 different bloggers, who are all parents of tweens, including yours truly. Visit Lee’s blog, and give her a follow or a Facebook Like! I wrote chapter 16 of this book, […]

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5 Steps to Focus on Prayer, Rather than Letting Your Mind Wander

parenting
5 Steps to Focus on Prayer, Rather than Letting Your Mind Wander

I don’t know about you, but I have always done some of my very best thinking during prayer time or listening to a church sermon. It isn’t on purpose. It’s just that it can be frustratingly hard to focus.

Prayer is something I start with the best of intentions. Like this…read it…it’s funny…..

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The 15 Best Things About Having All Boys

parenting
The 15 Best Things About Having All Boys

This week I happened upon a super cute post by Janine Huldie titled The 8 Best Things About Having All Girls. I had to read it! I needed a sneak peek into what that world is like because, mamas, the view over here, in my house of many little men, is a whole lot different! Janine wrote a great article. You should totally go read it. Naturally, Janine’s list inspired me to type out my own best things about having […]

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Arguing is the Thing That Gets on My Nerves the Most

parenting

You know what gets on my nerves the most? Arguing. All the kinds of arguing. I know when my kids argue it just means I’m going to end up having to deal with it. I know when my husband and I argue, I’m going to say something I regret. And yet, sometimes I find myself being argumentative. In fact, if someone tells me to do something I don’t want to do, I can become downright belligerent. It’s like a scab. […]

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Hobbies are the spice of life

parenting

I love hobbies, and I love seeing how each of my children have different hobbies that they enjoy. We do a lot of different things around here. Work pays the bills and can be very satisfying, but there’s something about a hobby that inspires people. Sometimes you are lucky enough to find a hobby that becomes your work, but even if you don’t, you still need a good hobby. Hobbies are the spice of life. We have a wide variety, […]

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The Story Traveler’s Bible: 5 Easy Ways We Teach Our Children About God

faith, family, giveaways, God, parenting

Our number one priority is that we set our children off on the right track spiritually. We aren’t training them to live to please just their parents, society, or a set of rules.  Once you’re an adult, those things all become mushy anyway. We’d rather they have a relationship with God. It’s not about religion; it’s about knowing how to pray, knowing why they believe, having faith, and making these choices on their own. It’s about feeling responsible to a […]

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